Becky Sellinger’s solo show “All Best,” closes today!
It has been an absolute delight we can’t wait to see what @beckysellinger does next.
Open today until 5pm
Becky Sellinger
Codex 03 (Big Deal), 2025
stone lithograph on paper
All Best, is only open for two more weekends! Come by this Saturday/Sunday 10-5
“In conversation with the sculptures is a series of three lithographs titled Codex 1-3 that serves as a Rosetta Stone—offering viewers a tool to decipher the linkages between the works. Stone lithography, a traditional printmaking technique dating back to the beginning of the nineteenth century, is one of the earliest methods of mass-producing images. Etched onto a surface mined from Jurassic limestone deposits is a reproduction of a page from Dale Carnegie’s best-selling text.
In contrast to Dale Carnegie’s belief that relationship-building is simply a tool for professional optimization, Peter Kropotkin argued that cooperation is necessary for the survival of any species, and he positioned mutual aid as the key to understanding evolution. These lithographs, which lampoon “innovations” in bread technology bred by market competition, also look critically at the Social Darwinist roots of Carnegie’s self-help sermon. “Survival of the fittest” is not, as textbooks would have you believe, a truism of evolutionary biology. The phrase was coined by Herbert Spencer, who, after reading Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, applied the phrase to his fundamentalist belief in laissez-faire capitalism. Oddly enough, Spencer also invented an early version of the paper clip.”
-Becky Sellinger & H.R. Webster (excerpt from the press release) @beckysellinger@hrweb
Becky Sellinger
Best Thing Since Sliced Bread, 2026
a loaf of bread, plywood, velvet, paint, felt, silicone, steel, lasercut acrylic, motor, artist designed/printed PLA components, epoxy, lacquer
30” x 22” x 11”
On view Sat/Sun 10-5
ARTIST TALK with Becky Sellinger Sunday 4pm
“Best Thing Since Sliced Bread” is an automaton of a loaf of bread undulating under the bright lights of a puppet theater. In the early nineteenth century, bread became a mass-produced consumer product. The reproductive labor of caring for wild yeast cultures in the home (the term culture derives from the Latin colere, meaning to tend) was displaced by what Walter Benjamin called the “fantasmagoria of commodity culture,” magically appearing through industrial fermentation. Bread—a paradoxical symbol of both hospitality and currency—has served as a key player in twentieth-century political economies. Mechanized bread slicing, invented in 1928, was briefly banned in the US during the Second World War. Although one theory holds that the steel used in industrial slicers was needed for the war effort, the measure also spoke to the blurring of the domestic and industrial spheres “on the home front.” Bread, which had become a wholly industrialized product, saw its role shift as the needs of the political economy brought the domestic into the factory and the factory into the home.
🍁🍎Hey! HUDSON VALLEY! I am beyond honored to be doing a little one-night visitation @roundaboutsnow_ for the CLOSING WEEKEND of the amazing All Best, show by @beckysellinger . It's in Kingston! Saturday, May 9. Come for the talking dogs, stay for the talking me.
Also, nbd, but last time me and Becky collaborated, the piece got acquired by a museum. Just saying. Please come! I almost never play the Hudson Valley (my actual hometown- fun fact) because, well, I don't really have any excuse. So come see it happen before your very eyes. Excited.
Becky Sellinger
La Conquête du pain, 2026
plaster, paint, mid century toaster, paper, faux wood drawer liner, motor
On view in her solo show “All Best,” on view till May 10th
La Conquête du pain is a sculpture containing a continuous scroll of Peter Kropotkin’s The Conquest of Bread, which emerges from and disappears back into a two-slice toaster. Kropotkin, the Russian Anarcho-Communist known for popularizing the idea of “mutual aid,” asserts in his well-known “Bread Book” the right to wellbeing for all and calls for the collectivization of production of both necessities and luxury items.
-Excerpt from text by @beckysellinger and @hrweb
📸 @theo.cote
Come check out the solo exhibition by Becky Sellinger on view @roundaboutsnow_ through May 10th. Gallery open Saturdays & Sundays 10am-5pm and by appointment.
Becky Sellinger’s solo exhibition “All best,” is open, come visit this weekend!
Gallery is open Saturday/Sunday 10-5
Becky Sellinger
Give A Dog a Good Name, 2026
Steel, foam, plastic, wood, rope, epoxy sculpt, servo motors, microprocessors, speaker, artist designed/printed PLA components, velvet, paint
80 x 65 x 31 @beckysellinger
Give a Dog a Good Name features two life-sized talking dogs that form the base of a bench. You are invited to experience the bench while the dogs recite “Give a Dog a Good Name,” a chapter from Dale Carnegie’s best-selling book How to Win Friends and Influence People, which instructs readers to use praise to foster worker productivity. Carnegie’s book introduced readers to the growing field of market psychology, and has sold over thirty million copies since it was published in 1936, continuing to inspire a pernicious emphasis on applying market principles to all social interactions.
Excerpt from press release written by @beckysellinger and @hrweb
See link in bio for the full press release.
📸 @theo.cote
Closing Day Walkthrough with Artists
Hudson Valley Artists: Terrestrial Extra
Join us this Sunday, March 29 at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art for the final day of Terrestrial Extra.
We will gather informally in the galleries at 2:30pm, with several exhibiting artists in attendance. At 3pm, curators Alta Buden and Craig Monteith will lead a brief walkthrough of the exhibition, joined by artists who will speak about their work.
A final opportunity to experience the exhibition and engage directly with the artists and ideas behind the work.
🗓 Sunday, March 29
🕝 Reception begins at 2:30pm
🕒 Walkthrough at 3pm
📍 The Dorsky Museum
Free and open to all.
ROUNDABOUT A YEAR WE GO!
On this day we opened our first show The Middles Ages and it has been an incredible year since! Each of our shows has had its own amazing life and each time we close one we have felt sad even as we feel joy at the opening of the next one. This post to reflect on all the amazing work we have gotten to show, to say a deep thank you to the artists who have worked with us and to the community that continues to come out and support the whole thing. THANK YOU!!
The Middle Ages
Liquefier (@meglipke@9arches )
Angry Water, Pretty Funny (@rachelrossin@alyssa_mcc@nniicckkppaayynnee@sphynxtits@bobo_nys )
Levels of Hardness (@aj_glam_warrior@erikdanielwhite )
Quieter Than Water, Lower Than Grass @viktorshaa
Civil Twilight (@jonnycampolo@shantigrumbine #laurenanderson
Terrestrial Extra @dorskymuseum
Special thanks also @anssssis and to our friends and families who help us to no end especially @lilbertucci and @jeef_jerky 💕
Excited to announce my solo show, All Best, happening at Roundabouts Now. The show will be on view March 21-May 10. The opening reception will be held March 21, from 4pm-7pm. Hope to see you there!
Floating Window #10, gel pen on black paper, 17x11 inches, 2023
Installation views of CIVIL TWILIGHT @jonnycampolo@shantigrumbine #laurenanderson
This is the last weekend for this show!!!
Open today and tomorrow 10-5
